Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Dec 1998 14:05:22 -0500 | From | Michael K Vance <> | Subject | Re: Strange Problem with a File on Redhat 5.0 |
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Peter Moulder wrote:
> > Here is what i get when doing a ls -al in the / dir > > > > b---r-S--T 1 29295 28257 102, 47 Jun 20 2034 tmp > > Run e2fsck version 1.12 over that filesystem (with the `-f' flag). If > that doesn't work, use debugfs or ext2ed to set the link count of that
I had a very big problem with this at one point when I had a bizarre hdd failure during a stage2 gcc compile. Thousands of files with garbage values (block and character files with major numbers of 4 million or so, file sizes of several hundred megabytes, etc.). I had to write a debugfs "script" to 'rm' them all since the 'rmdir' functionality isn't written into debugfs yet. It's interesting to note with these files that you can move the directory they are contained in around, thereby isolating all the bad files into one area. A nice 'du /' also showed me where they were hiding since the directories they were contained in showed up as huge...
m.
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